Department of Education

The objective of our audit was to evaluate the Office of Special Education Programs’ (OSEP) implementation of its differentiated monitoring and support (DMS) component under the results driven accountability initiative. We found that OSEP needs to enhance its implementation of the DMS component...

Our audit determined that significant improvements are needed in the Department’s Office of Indian Education’s oversight and monitoring of grantee performance and use of funds for the nearly $100 million in Indian Education Formula Grant program grants awarded annually. Without adequate oversight...

In this audit, we sought to determine whether the Department had effective oversight of the programs provided to charter schools and whether it sufficiently monitored State educational agencies to ensure that (1) procedures and internal controls were in place to identify the causes for charter...

In this audit, we presented the results of our review of the Office of Management, the office responsible for Department-wide oversight of the contractor personnel security screening process. It combined the results of work conducted within the Office of Management and two principal offices—the...

The objective of our audit was to determine the extent to which Federal Student Aid (FSA) had implemented its enterprise risk management (ERM) framework. FSA did not implement all elements of its ERM framework or implement all elements characteristic of effective ERM. FSA developed an ERM framework...

objectives of our audit were to assess (1) whether the U.S. Department of Education’s (Department) process for recognizing accrediting agencies ensured that agencies met the Federal recognition criteria and (2) the extent that the Department monitored agencies during the period of recognition. We...

During this period, we issued 16 audits and other reports that contained recommendations to improve Department programs and operations. In addition, we closed 39 investigations involving fraud or corruption, securing more than $18.5 million in restitution, settlements, fines, recoveries, forfeitures...

Other than the deficiency described in Finding 2, nothing came to our attention indicating that Orleans Parish did not design and implement policies and procedures that are likely to provide reasonable assurance that previously reported, Title I-relevant findings would not reoccur. Orleans Parish...

The Department did not comply with IPERA because it did not meet its reduction target for the Federal Pell Grant program (Pell). The Department met its reduction target for the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program (Direct Loan) and also met the remaining five compliance requirements of IPERA.

We found that FSA did not effectively implement Department requirements for the contractor personnel security screening process. We specifically noted weaknesses in FSA’s development of internal policies and procedures; designation of contract positions and risk levels; maintenance of contract...